In his seminal essay “Linguistics and poetics” (1960), Roman Jakobson enumerated six functions for all utterances, going on to argue that the nature of any given utterance can be determined by observing which of these functions is the “dominant,” or motivating feature, of the utterance. The focus of attention in that particular essay is one of these functions, the “poetic function,” as it is
... [Show full abstract] Jakobson's task to show that linguistics and poetics must not isolate themselves from each other.